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Book Synopsis The Plays of Frances Sheridan by : Frances Chamberlaine Sheridan
Download or read book The Plays of Frances Sheridan written by Frances Chamberlaine Sheridan and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frances Sheridan is now remembered, if at all, as the mother of the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Yet, in her own day, she was a novelist and playwright whose work was admired by her contemporaries, David Garrick, Samuel Johnson. James Boswell, and Samuel Richardson. The appearance of all of this dramatist's long-out-of-print work reveals her to be an authoress worth studying, not only as an important influence on her son, but in her own right.
Book Synopsis Memoirs of the life and writings of mrs. Frances Sheridan by : Alicia Lefanu
Download or read book Memoirs of the life and writings of mrs. Frances Sheridan written by Alicia Lefanu and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rival Queens written by Felicity Nussbaum and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In eighteenth-century England, actresses were frequently dismissed as mere prostitutes trading on their sexual power rather than their talents. Yet they were, Felicity Nussbaum argues, central to the success of a newly commercial theater. Urban, recently moneyed, and thoroughly engaged with their audiences, celebrated actresses were among the first women to achieve social mobility, cultural authority, and financial independence. In fact, Nussbaum contends, the eighteenth century might well be called the "age of the actress" in the British theater, given women's influence on the dramatic repertory and, through it, on the definition of femininity. Treating individual star actresses who helped spark a cult of celebrity—especially Anne Oldfield, Susannah Cibber, Catherine Clive, Margaret Woffington, Frances Abington, and George Anne Bellamy—Rival Queens reveals the way these women animated issues of national identity, property, patronage, and fashion in the context of their dramatic performances. Actresses intentionally heightened their commercial appeal by catapulting the rivalries among themselves to center stage. They also boldly challenged in importance the actor-managers who have long dominated eighteenth-century theater history and criticism. Felicity Nussbaum combines an emphasis on the actresses themselves with close analysis of their diverse roles in works by major playwrights, including George Farquhar, Nicholas Rowe, Colley Cibber, Arthur Murphy, David Garrick, Isaac Bickerstaff, and Richard Sheridan. Hers is a comprehensive and original argument about the importance of actresses as the first modern subjects, actively shaping their public identities to make themselves into celebrated properties.
Book Synopsis Collaboration in the Arts from the Middle Ages to the Present by : Silvia Bigliazzi
Download or read book Collaboration in the Arts from the Middle Ages to the Present written by Silvia Bigliazzi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Collaboration' is a complex cultural and political phenomenon: the combined practice of two or more artists, simultaneously or across time, or the willing (and therefore publicly reprehensible) collusion implied by the term's specifically historical meaning. These interdisciplinary essays propose collaboration as a strategy for ensuring creativity within a dynamic tradition, and as a means of mutual enrichment both between individuals and between disciplines. Writers from Chaucer to Wilde and Conrad are considered in this context, together with medieval iconography and German Romanticism. Yet collaboration as collusion and coercion are also implicated in diverse political and cultural agendas informed by xenophobic and exclusive, rather than inclusive, ideologies. Their impact spreads beyond the lives and minds of individual artists and individual texts to touch on the relationship between the citizen and the state, whether writers from the 'losing' side, the immigrant in Italy, writers who supported Fascisim, or the Roma in Britain.
Download or read book Stage Mothers written by Laura Engel and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stage Mothers explores the connections between motherhood and the theater both on and off stage throughout the long eighteenth century. Although the realities of eighteenth-century motherhood and representations of maternity have recently been investigated in relation to the novel, social history, and political economy, the idea of motherhood and its connection to the theatre as a professional, material, literary, and cultural site has received little critical attention. The essays in this volume, spanning the period from the Restoration to Regency, address these forgotten maternal narratives, focusing on: the representation of motherhood as the defining female role; the interplay between an actress’s celebrity persona and her chosen roles; the performative balance between the cults of maternity and that of the “passionate” actress; and tensions between sex and maternity and/or maternity and public authority. In examining the overlaps and disconnections between representations and realities of maternity in the long eighteenth century, and by looking at written, received, visual, and performed records of motherhood, Stage Mothers makes an important contribution to debates central to eighteenth-century cultural history.
Book Synopsis Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Mrs. Frances Sheridan ... with Remarks Upon a Late Life of the Right Hon. R.B. Sheridan, Also Criticisms and Selections from the Works of Mrs. Sheridan; and Biographical Anecdotes of Her Family and Contemporaries by : Alicia Lefanu
Download or read book Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Mrs. Frances Sheridan ... with Remarks Upon a Late Life of the Right Hon. R.B. Sheridan, Also Criticisms and Selections from the Works of Mrs. Sheridan; and Biographical Anecdotes of Her Family and Contemporaries written by Alicia Lefanu and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Seduction Narrative in Britain, 1747–1800 by : Katherine Binhammer
Download or read book The Seduction Narrative in Britain, 1747–1800 written by Katherine Binhammer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-24 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteenth-century literature displays a fascination with the seduction of a virtuous young heroine, most famously illustrated by Samuel Richardson's Clarissa and repeated in 1790s radical women's novels, in the many memoirs by fictional or real penitent prostitutes, and in street print. Across fiction, ballads, essays and miscellanies, stories were told of women's mistaken belief in their lovers' vows. In this book Katherine Binhammer surveys seduction narratives from the late eighteenth century within the context of the new ideal of marriage-for-love and shows how these tales tell varying stories of women's emotional and sexual lives. Drawing on new historicism, feminism, and narrative theory, Binhammer argues that the seduction narrative allowed writers to explore different fates for the heroine than the domesticity that became the dominant form in later literature. This study will appeal to scholars of eighteenth-century literature, social and cultural history, and women's and gender studies.
Book Synopsis Richard Brinsley Sheridan by : Jack E. DeRochi
Download or read book Richard Brinsley Sheridan written by Jack E. DeRochi and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new collection of essays on Richard Brinsley Sheridan brings the most important British playwright of the eighteenth century back to the forefront of literary and cultural studies of the era. While his pyrotechnic life as a romantic hero, playwright, Member of Parliament, and theatre manager has generated a number of recent biographies, it is Sheridan's works--not just plays but also poetry and orations--that endure. These essays reclaim the legacy of the man of letters and partisan bon vivant who burst from obscurity to become a powerful cultural force in Georgian London. This collection covers the many lives of Sheridan, taking into account both his variegated career and the competing accounts of the man, as well as his early verse, which lays the foundation for his success as a playwright. Chapters are devoted to Sheridan's theatre, and provide innovative readings of his most famous dramatic pieces: The Rivals, The Duenna, The School for Scandal, The Critic, and Pizarro. The volume also includes extensive discussion of the dramatic highs of Sheridan's long political career, thus placing the playwright-politician firmly in the world in which performance and politics were inextricably entwined. Contributors: Mita Choudhury, Jack E. DeRochi, Marianna D'Ezio, Daniel J. Ennis, Emily Friedman, Steven Gores, David Haley, Robert W. Jones, Daniel O'Quinn, Glynis Ridley, John Vance, David Francis Taylor
Book Synopsis Play in Early Childhood by : Mary Sheridan
Download or read book Play in Early Childhood written by Mary Sheridan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-12-16 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the pioneering work of Mary D. Sheridan, Play in Early Childhood is a classic introductory text to play and development – key topics for all those who work with young children. Updated for a contemporary audience and fully evidence-based, it explains how children’s play develops and how they develop as they play. With over eighty illustrations and observations of play from birth to six years, this new edition presents classical and contemporary literature, making clear links between play and all areas of children’s development. It includes activities to consolidate thinking and suggestions for further reading throughout. Play in Early Childhood considers: the development, value and characteristics of play issues relating to culture, adversity and gender play from recreational, therapeutic and educational perspectives the role of parents/caregivers and professionals in supporting play Suitable for those new to the area or for more experienced workers wanting a quick reference guide, this easy-to-follow book meets the needs of students and professionals from a wide range of health, education and social care backgrounds, including early years professionals, playworkers, children’s nurses, speech and language therapists and social workers.
Book Synopsis Conclusion of the Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph by : Frances Sheridan
Download or read book Conclusion of the Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph written by Frances Sheridan and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2013-09-23 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1761, Frances Sheridan published her novel The Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, which became a popular and widely praised example of the sentimental novel. The Conclusion, that novel’s sequel, is set eight years later, after Sidney Bidulph’s marriage and motherhood. Psychologically subtle and emotionally immediate, the novel is told almost entirely in the form of letters. Many of the letters are between the scheming Sophy and Edward Audley, who are trying to trick Sidney’s daughter into marriage with Edward; these letters provide a startlingly realistic portrayal of villainy, anticipating such later works as Les Liaisons Dangereuses. The historical appendices include documents on the education of young adults in the eighteenth century and contemporary reviews of the novel.
Book Synopsis The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing by : Seamus Deane
Download or read book The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing written by Seamus Deane and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 1756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph by : Frances Sheridan
Download or read book The Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph written by Frances Sheridan and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2011-06-06 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph was hugely popular in circulating libraries in the years after its publication, and its emotional intensity was often remarked upon; Samuel Johnson wrote to Frances Sheridan, “I know not, Madam! that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.” Sheridan traces Sidney Bidulph’s development in a complex epistolary novel spanning much of the protagonist’s life, and explores the tension between sexual desire and prescribed female conduct. In addition to an introduction that places the novel in the context of Sheridan’s feminism and of the early novel, this edition provides material on discourses of female conduct, letters between Sheridan and Samuel Richardson, and contemporary reviews.
Book Synopsis Eugenia and Adelaide, A Novel by : Anna M Fitzer
Download or read book Eugenia and Adelaide, A Novel written by Anna M Fitzer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frances Sheridan’s Eugenia and Adelaide is an astonishing first novel of parental tyranny, infidelity, kidnap, blackmail, and violence played out over two volumes against the backdrop of continental Europe. The friendship of Eugenia and Adelaide endures in spite of their separation at the beginning of the novel and remains central to a complex yet coherently drawn web of intriguing tales situated in palatial apartments and remote moss-covered castles. Drawing upon the tragic and comic possibilities of disguise familiar to her from Shakespearean and Restoration drama, and influenced by the romantic entanglements of early prose fiction, Sheridan adopts a sometimes satirical approach to extraordinary events at the same time that she demonstrates a sincere and convincing commitment to the ingenious art of storytelling. Sheridan completed the novel in 1739 when she was just fifteen-years old and Eugenia and Adelaide would prove instrumental to the establishing of Sheridan’s literary reputation as one of the most successful novelists and dramatists of the mid-eighteenth century. This is the first modern edition of Eugenia and Adelaide to be published since the original posthumous publication of 1791 and presents a unique opportunity to explore Sheridan’s contribution to our current understandings of the history of women’s writing, and of reading tastes and practices in the long eighteenth century.
Download or read book The Golden Thread written by David Clare and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume edited collection illuminates the valuable counter-canon of Irish women’s playwriting with forty-two essays written by leading and emerging Irish theatre scholars and practitioners. Covering three hundred years of Irish theatre history from 1716 to 2016, it is the most comprehensive study of plays written by Irish women to date. These short essays provide both a valuable introduction and innovative analysis of key playtexts, bringing renewed attention to scripts and writers that continue to be under-represented in theatre criticism and performance. Volume One covers plays by Irish women playwrights written between 1716 to 1992, and seeks to address and redress the historic absence of Irish female playwrights in theatre histories. Highlighting the work of nine women playwrights from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as thirteen of the twentieth century’s key writers, the chapters in this volume explore such varied themes as the impact of space and place on identity, women’s strategic use of genre, and theatrical responses to shifts in Irish politics and culture. CONTRIBUTORS: Conrad Brunström, David Clare, Thomas Conway, Marguérite Corporaal, Mark Fitzgerald, Shirley-Anne Godfrey, Úna Kealy, Sonja Lawrenson, Cathy Leeney, Marc Mac Lochlainn, Kate McCarthy, Fiona McDonagh, Deirdre McFeely, Megan W. Minogue, Ciara Moloney, Justine Nakase, Patricia O'Beirne, Kevin O'Connor, Ciara O'Dowd, Clíona Ó Gallchoir, Anna Pilz, Emilie Pine, Ruud van den Beuken, Feargal Whelan
Book Synopsis Memoirs of Women Writers, Part I, Volume 1 by : Anna M Fitzer
Download or read book Memoirs of Women Writers, Part I, Volume 1 written by Anna M Fitzer and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a review of the autobiographical account Alicia LeFanu, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Mrs. Frances Sheridan, which sheds light on the controversial role of the female writers in the early nineteenth century.
Book Synopsis Critical Essays in Honour of Mária Kurdi by : Zsuzsa Csikai
Download or read book Critical Essays in Honour of Mária Kurdi written by Zsuzsa Csikai and published by SPECHEL Egyesület. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in the present volume are dedicated and written in tribute to Professor Mária Kurdi upon celebrating her 70th birthday. As a multifaceted scholar, Mária is known for her enduring contribution to the wide field of literary studies, her main research areas being modern American and British drama, drama theory, and comparative literary studies. An internationally renowned scholar of modern Irish literature and culture, she is also well known for the many ways in which she has promoted Irish studies in Hungary. This is the third volume in the SPECHEL e-ditions series.
Book Synopsis The Plays & Poems of Richard Brinsley Sheridan: The school for scandal. The critic. The camp. The forty thieves by : Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Download or read book The Plays & Poems of Richard Brinsley Sheridan: The school for scandal. The critic. The camp. The forty thieves written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
